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Subject:        Re: MAPS-L: forwarded question: Library schools with map
librarianship?
Date:   Thu, 27 Apr 2006 15:08:06 -0400
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To:     Maps, Air Photo & Geospatial Systems Forum <[log in to unmask]>


Pratt School of Library and Information Science, Manhattan campus, NYC,
offers a 3 credit course on 5 Saturdays in July and August. Taught by moi
in NYPL facilities at 42nd Street and Fifth Avenue, Manhattan. Matt Knutzen
offers a segment on new tools in map librarianship [online stuff] and Nancy
Kandoian offers a segment on map cataloging.

Syllabus is on the American Library Association Map and Geography Round
Table [MAGERT] webpage.

Hope this helps,

Alice C. Hudson
Chief, The Lionel Pincus & Princess Firyal Map Division
The Humanities and Social Sciences Library
The New York Public Library
5th Avenue & 42nd Street, Room 117
New York, NY 10018-2788

[log in to unmask];  212-930-0589;   fax 212-930-0027

Open 1-7:30 Tu; 1-6 Wed-Sat.          Closed Sun, Mon.

See our exhibition, Treasured Maps, in Room 316,
the Edna Barnes Salomon Room,
from 11-7:30 Tu & Wed; 10-6 Thur-Sat; 1-5 Sun.
Extended to May 14, 2006!

http://nypl.org/research/chss/map/map.html